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Music > Panda Bear | Excepter Panda Bear / ExcepterCarrots / KKKKK split 12-inch(Paw Tracks) US release date: 23 January 2007 UK release date: 23 January 2007 By Daniel SpicerConsider this an orange juice and mogadon cocktail. While both pretty distracting in their own way, these two quarter-hour treats—brought together for the latest in Paw Tracks’ sporadic series of split 12” vinyl releases—gain a whole lot from rubbing up against each other as two sides of the same heavily-grooved coin. Animal Collective’s Panda Bear—aka Noah Lennox—rolls out a beautiful medley of sunshiny avant-pop from his latest album Person Pitch, with the emphasis on glitchy electronic textures—shifting seamlessly from a kind of tabla-looped industrial world-music to experimental clip-hop to a dreamy dub, all overlaid with gorgeous, multilayered, Beach Boys harmonies, delivering muffled, just-out-of-reach lyrics that highlight the intention to use vocals as sound not song. New York noiseniks Excepter, for their part, present an intriguingly ineffectual episode that combines ambient noise with formless, rhythmic drifting, soporific heartbeats, electronic drone and oddly incongruous live-show banter—a strangely engaging exercise in going nowhere slowly. You have to wonder who’d win in a fight. — 9 March 2007
 Related ArticlesPanda BearBy Kevin Pearson13.Jul.07 Panda Bear presides over his samplers like a priest at the pulpit, stirring the seated crowd with bits of loop-based lunacy. It's clear: this boy was born to stand before a packed set of pews. 
Good Times, Other Realities: A Conversation with Panda BearBy Jennifer Kelly26.Mar.07 Whether with Animal Collective, through his solo work, or via a handful of other projects, Noah Lennox (or Panda Bear) makes a kind of disruptively joyful, emotionally affecting music operate on some sort of limbic plane to change your mood. 
Panda Bear: Person PitchBy Phillip Buchan26.Mar.07 Animal Collective's Noah Lennox returns for his third solo outing. The tunes are fantastic, but their thrill is not without limits. |
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